'[T]he natural antipathy of author & bookseller': Byron and John Murray.
In later years John Murray looked hack to 1812 as his 'annus mirabilis'. In the history of the firm, this year was momentous, the acquisition of the famous Albemarle Street premises second only in importance to the publication of the first two cantos of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. This essay...
| Published in: | Byron Journal Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 159 - 173 |
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